This may be the sickest dieting device ever. Eat all you want (ice cream for example) and then empty the stomach contents into the toilet via a surgically implanted tube:
ABC News: Stomach-Pumping Machine Makes Calories Disappear
Sounds familiar? This way of making calories “disappear” is very much possible without surgery. Just put two fingers in the back of your throat and throw up. It works. It’s a severe eating disorder called bulimia. However, doctors usually try to help people with eating disorders, instead of encouraging them.
As an eating disorder this bulimia machine is obviously much worse than simple calorie counting. This is truly sick.
What do you think?
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saddened and sick.... what has our society come to?
also i take it that this is targeted at obese individuals......this is a ridiculous solution for a problem that is not only physical but emotional, psychological and spiritual!
I have never understood being so desperate that you would go for surgery (even though I am not a small lass), but this is almost worse in that it's advocating nothing good.. hey just do what you want and have a butt in your stomach to bypass your body's systems.
Wish these people would wake up and smell the roses.
Try doing one IF/week. I started doing that (Intermittent fasting). Once a week after eating supper I won't eat again until the next supper (skip breakfast and lunch). I typically do it on a day my wife and I go out to eat and it helps me to really enjoy that first meal (out).
Googe intermittent fasting - there are many variations.
Congrats on the weight loss
so just to clarify: person makes themself sick after eating = eating disorder and needs help
person who has a device attached which doe the same thing = fine idea for weight loss
the world we live in!
"The HAPIfork is an electronic fork that helps you monitor and track your eating habits. It also alerts you with the help of indicator lights when you are eating too fast."
http://www.hapilabs.com/products-hapifork.asp
I'll be able to eat that massive bowl of ice cream as long as I eat slowly with my HapiFork
I hear ya Kirk. I don't know why that compulsion exists. It isn't simply lack of willpower, gluttony or laziness. There's got to be a glitch somewhere in the hormonal system and the brain, that comes from a genetic "oops". Until that gets figured out you just have to do the best you can without beating yourself up.
As long as you are healthy there is still room for experimenting. My best results always come from movement, combined with whatever I do dietarily, and staying as far away from food as it is safe to do. Living a life that considers food as fuel only, and creating "abstinence" in every other sense of the word so that the compulsion doesn't get triggered.
If your health starts to go, the whole thing gets much more difficult. At some point you really do end up considering crazy ideas because you get cornered. So... fight hard now, before that happens.
Take good care.
Kurt Lao - Editor for Weight Rater
http://www.sugaraholics.com
http://highfatlowcarbrecipes.wordpress.com/
Not only that device promotes unhealthy eating patterns, it's an unnecessary health risk that all inserted objects are, and basically it's an open wound to your system.
it never works, but people still keep trying.
all happiness comes from within, and to truly be happy, all you need is to cast away the shackles of superficiality, the ego and let yourself be filled with kindness, sincerity and all things positive.
this: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RDCpt7CL-Hc/ThIvBvq62pI/AAAAAAAABhk/S6dlifW...
...and that's pretty much a little offtopic, but you know what, telling people to be happy is quite important. matter != happiness. pretty much.